Bird Photo Booth Competition Gets Up Close & Personal With Toronto Birds

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Wondercafe blog readers who are bird watchers will rejoice in my latest post on the Wondercafe blog,

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There's a bird photo booth traveling around Toronto taking pictures of wild birds on behalf of businesses competing to win prizes. Businesses compete based on images the booth collects when visiting their address.

This unique quest asks the people of Toronto to take a second and gaze at their avian neighbors, the birds, up close, to study them and learn a little bit about each type and learn some character traits unique to each species. The idea is to make it easier for readers to later recognize them by certain markings, bird calls. Over time these humans may come to comprehend the bird's personalities, and know them when they see them, or hear them, in trees around town.

It gives me Rob Campbell great pleasure to introduce the Toronto Bird Photo Booth Business Challenge

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Because I respect the UCCAN Community for begin such forward thinkers, im honoured to come here with a homemade media monument that I'm working on creating from nothing this summer,
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To get started, I got equipment including a Wingscapes BirdPro trail camera and iPhone 5c for Bryson Lovette's 'Bird Photo Booth' rig - both devices equipped with motion detectors to make a fully automated solution.

What this unique challenge needs is business leaders who run companies with websites looking for exposure that have backyards or rooftops or bird friendly gardens and verandas; each host business gets good media attention. And also we need sponsors , bird friendly garden merch, birdseed, houses, bird baths.

This is something i started initially to showcase some new loyalty programs software, still in development and now its become a unique storytelling exercise more than a contest; there are no printed rules - its all very informal and yet perfectly outrageous.

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Really its more of a six month storytelling project about the many different types of avian residents of this great city and where they are encountered and why.. and that's more the fascinating part. Why are the different birds where they are?

In this advanced content marketing model we make media about the birds, and not so much about the businesses that host the booth. This is more evolved good-for-society myth making about sparrows and starlings, crows and canaries more than it is about companies who make it all possible by sponsoring the challenge and hosting the booth.

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I blogged about it on SMOJoe blog, SMOJoe presents the Toronto Bird Photo Booth Business Challenge. And I told the whole story about how it came about, and thanked an office phones company that donated an iPhone 5c and Toronto Dentist Dr Natalie Archer and Paul Peic who set up the rig on the swim-up back porch of his Floatie home in Toronto to bring attention to his paddle board rental business in Bluffers Park Marina (and also Ashbridges Bay). You can read all these stories as the program unfolds here, http://birdsoftoronto.com/category/bird-photo-booth-story/
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Here is David Shephard taking a break from building a tiny house in Toronto to set the cameras and try to get shots of the finches that fly around this historic property near Rouge Park.

I'm looking for bird friendly businesses who might take the challenge ? Can you help
 
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Interesting to read about your project roberiffic - thanks for sharing. I'm not a business person, so can't offer my space, but will give it more thought. In the meantime - I enjoyed your photos!
 
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